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September 27, 2024

Minor early changes in lungs can signal changes in progressive lung disease

The research focused on the very early stages of FPF, a serious progressive lung disease where for unknown reasons scar tissue builds up in the lungs over time.

By Nancy Humphrey
Shade Tree Trot. (photo by Donn Jones)
September 26, 2024

Scenes from Shade Tree Trot, Greater Nashville Heart Walk

Saturday, Sept. 21, was a busy day for volunteer events supporting good causes, with both the Shade Tree Trot and Greater Nashville Heart Walk taking place.
September 26, 2024

Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital awarded four stars by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  

CMS assigns star ratings to U.S. hospitals each year based on 46 quality measures. The more stars a hospital receives, the better its performance is, based on the metrics CMS assesses.
Alexander Bick, MD, PhD, and Nancy Cox, PhD. (photo by Donn Jones)
September 25, 2024

Alexander Bick named head of Genetic Medicine

Bick will succeed Nancy Cox, PhD, who has led Genetic Medicine since she came to VUMC in 2015. Genetic Medicine is one of 13 divisions in the Department of Medicine.

By Bill Snyder
Douglas Terry, PhD. (photo by Donn Jones)
September 25, 2024

Vanderbilt’s Douglas Terry named Senior Director of Research for the National Football League

The role will concentrate on several initiatives meant to enhance the health and safety of NFL players and is an extension of Terry’s expertise and work on sport-related concussion and cumulative head impacts.

By Holly Fletcher
September 24, 2024

David Russell named EVP for Organization Transformation and Chief Strategic Business Development Officer

In this newly created role, he will oversee VUMC’s enterprise-wide internal and external business development, market positioning and growth strategies, as well as strategic transactions such as mergers, acquisitions and other affiliations.
September 24, 2024

Initiative aims to prepare high school students for careers in nursing

VUMC is collaborating with Nurses Middle College Nashville (Nurses MC), a proposed public charter school, which is seeking approval from the Tennessee Public Charter School Commission to prepare high school students for careers in nursing.
By Matt Batcheldor
September 24, 2024

Hyundai Hope on Wheels award bolsters pediatric cancer research

Since 2007, Hyundai Hope on Wheels, which includes funding from Hyundai Motor America and local dealerships, has awarded more than $2 million in funding to pediatric cancer researchers at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.
By Christina Echegaray
September 24, 2024

‘Learning’ network will help move genomics into the clinic

A real-world learning health system was established at VUMC a decade ago. Now, the National Human Genome Research Institute is awarding two five-year grants totaling $12 million to support VUMC’s participation in, and coordination of, a genomic-enabled learning health system (gLHS) network.
By Bill Snyder
September 24, 2024

Poverty rates linked to asthma in ‘redlined’ areas

Neighborhoods that were discriminated against, called ‘redlined areas,’ are known to have higher levels of air pollution from industry and vehicles, especially diesel-fueled trucks, buses and cars.
By Craig Boerner
September 23, 2024

Nobel laureate James Rothman to present on synaptic neurotransmission

Rothman, the Sterling Professor of Cell Biology at Yale University, shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for “discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.” 
By Leigh MacMillan
September 23, 2024

Pioneering transplant surgeon J. Kelly Wright Jr. retires

Wright and C. Wright Pinson, MBA, MD, performed Vanderbilt’s first liver transplant in 1991. This year, VUMC celebrated its 3,000th liver transplant.
By Matt Batcheldor
September 23, 2024

New study reveals common belief of CTE, link to mental health among former professional NFL players

“Understanding the proportion of former players who think they have CTE — and identifying the common symptoms in those who believe they have CTE — is an important step for helping these individuals receive medical and mental health treatment,” said Douglas Terry, PhD, assistant professor and clinical neuropsychologist in the Department of Neurological Surgery and co-director of the Vanderbilt Sports Concussion Center.
By Holly Fletcher
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